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Lethbridge Herald (September 25, 1946)

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VOL. XXXIX.—No. 240. LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1946 12 PAGES BARRACKS INVADED BY OnAWA VETS
Farmers Seek
More Support
Take V^te Settle >rp-".!!.'T,?!., SLt^Ir* Pittsburgh Strike
PITTSBTJRGH, Sept. 2 5 . — A
nine-man strike committee an­nounced
In court today its recom­mendation
that 3,500 striking utility
v/orkers end a two-day-old power
v/alkout which had benumbed in­dustry
and business life in this steel
city.
The committee men said through
roimsel that the union membership
would vote tonight on a new com­pany
proposal to settle the dispute.
Details of the company's offer were
unannounced. The committee said
It would urge that the members ac­cept
the offer, NolsTeef
Price Boost
—Says Anderson
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25— </P) —
Agriculture Secretary Anderson
told United States farmers last
night that meat ceiling prices now
were sufficiently, high to stimulate
production and that the present
low slaughtering of anliToals would
prove a boon to consumers later.
Mr. Anderson outlined his views
In a speech prepared for broadcast
from Albuquerque, N.M., as repre­sentatives
of the country's meat
packers in Washington started a
new drive to have price controls
removed from beef.
"Ceiling prices," Mr. Anderson
Mid, "do not seem to be impeding
the needed production of any agri­cultural
commodity and we in the
(agriculture) department feel that
price adjustments are behind us
and that there should be few if any
additional recommendations for up­ward
price ceilings."
T'he national beef packers indus­try
advisory committee conferred
on the price decontrol question with
Office of Price . Administration re­presentatives
in Washington but
Roscoe G. Haynle, committee chair­man,
said his group was informed
no immediate action could be taken.
TWO-FOLD OBJECTIVE
Bv OVID A. MARTIN.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 25.—m—
Agriculture Secretary Anderson's
speech on American farm prices at
Albuouerque, N.M., was generally
interpreted here today as having a
two-fold objective: ,
1. Try to convince United States
consumers that livestock farmers
have not gone- on strike since the
re-instatement of price controls
/over meat.
2. To caution American farmers
that higher meat prices would hurt
them in two ways: (a) by inflating
prices of things they buy and fb)
by cutting down domestic demand
at a time when mass consumption
must be looked to as an outlet for
agriculture's high level of produc­tivity.
Mr. Anderson's speech last night
was delivered at a time when gov­ernmental
agencies were reporting
a flood of complaints over the severe
meat shortage In tne United States.
In his radio address Mr. Ander­son
described the current meat
shortage as reflecting a .short supply
of livestock ready for slaughter
rather than a tendency of pro­ducers
to hold animals with thq
hope that ceilings would be in­creased
or withdrawn.
He said United States consumers
must wait while "52,000.000 head of
cattle and 58,000,000 heads of hogs
NO U.S. BEEF
(Contmued on Page Two.)
The Left Hand
. •. Corner, . .
Cooking 10.000 Meals a
Day — Money for the
Pastor—Highway Post-offices.
EVERY day will be "D-Day" for
the army of chefs preparing
to board the Queen iilliinbeth,
world's largest liner, scheduled to
sail on her maiden postwar luxury
voyage October 16th. They'll have
the terriffc job of cooking 'over
10,000 meals a day for passengers
and crew of the 83,6'73-ton ship.
To keep the five kitchens of the
Queen Ellzabetii going will, require
the services of a 130-man staff.
And that doesn't include another
130 specially-trained people to man
the larders, confectioners', bakers',
snlad and fruit rooms, all working
with the kitchen squads.
Not all of the luxuries available
to passengers before the war will
be on the tables of the Queen Eliza­beth,
Cunard White Star officials
here say, but they promise that
food and service will be tops for
present-day ocean travel. Because
of the cosmopolitan passenger list,
the Queen Elizabeth's gourmet-servers
will supply specially-pre­pared
meals according to tiieir na­tional,
sectarian or dietetic tastes.
Ordering plates and spooPo alone
was a major undertaking for the
Qnr-cn Elizabeth's dining room super­visors.
The ship carries 100,000
pieces of earthenwara, china and
glass, and over 26,000 pieces of sil­ver.
0—0—0—0
REMEMBERED THE PASTOR
(Chicago Daily News)
Members of a small congregation
in Iowa, prospering through the
THE LEFT HANU
(Continued on Page Four.)
to Recruit New Members
for Picket Lines ,
EDMONTON, Sept. 25.—(C.
P.)—Leaders of more than 50,-
000 Alberta and Saskatchewan
farmers stagini; a 30-day de­livery
strike of all farm pro­duce
renewed efforts to obtain
additional support from non-striking
farmers today. The
19-day-old strike was called in
a bid to force federal recogni­tion
of farmer demands for
parity between farm costs and
returns.
OPEN STRIKE OFFICE
The Alberta Farmers' Union
scheduled several mass meetings in
Alberta this week in a drive to re­cruit
new members to picket lines
already supported by more than
20,000 union members. Meanwhile
the United Farmers of Canada,
with an estimated 30,000 member­ship
confined to Saskatchewan,
opened a strike ofHce in Regina to
try and win new supporters in the
southern part of the province.
Reports from both provinces in­dicated
strong support in the north­ern
sections. George Bickerton, pub­licity
and research director of the
U.P.C. said more than 210 com­munities
had expressed their sup­port
to the union—about 150 of
them in the northern regions.
The U.F.C. director, who has
farmed just west of Saskatoon since
1912, opened the Regina strike of­fice
yesterday. , He said memory
of the depression days of the 1930's
and fear of going back to them
"started farmers at this strike."
TO "FALL IN LINE"
Carl J. Stimpfle, farmer-president
of the A.F.U., continued to super­vise
the dispatch of ballots to union
members asking them if they wUh-ed
the strike continued past the
30-day time limit as U.F.C. secre­tary
Frank Ellason announced his
organization would "fall in line"
with the decision reached by the
Alberta farmers.
Farmers in both provinces waited
FARMERS SEEK
(Continued on Page Two.)
Girl Tells Court Of
Intimate Romance
LONDON, Sept. 25.—f/P)—Attrac­tive'
Yvonne Symonds in trembling
sentences told a quiet courtroom on
Tuesday of her intimate romance
with Neville George Heath who is
accused of the mutilation murders
of two pretty women.
Allowed to sit, after she once ap­peared
about to faint in the wit­ness
box, Miss Symonds said the
hotel In^ which siie spent a night
with Heath last June was the one
in which Mrs. Margery Gardner's
nude and beaten body was found
less than a week later. Heath also
is charged with the sex slaying of
Doreen Marshall.
She testil^ed that the 29-year-old
former R.A.F. pilot had described
to her later one of Mrs. Gardner's
injuries—a wound appai:ently made
by a poker or similar instrument
between the legs—which the prose­cution
says he could not have
known about unless he was present
when the woman was attacked.
The prosecutor, Anthony Hawke,
said Mrs. Gardner had been slain
by a man so perverted as to be "al­most
a monstrosity."
Medical witnesses said other in­juries
suffered by Mi-s. Gardner, a
former movie extra, included 17
whiplashes and "savage" bites.
Miss Symonds on cross-examina­tion
exnlained that she liad stayed
one night with Heath after they
had- first met because he "over-persuaded"
her. She said It was
her first experience and that Heath
treated her "perfectly courteous­ly."
She said h& had dl.scussed the
Gardner case with her several days
later and had expres.sed the view the
thing must have been done by "a
sexual maniac.''
19 KILLED IN
R.A.F. CRASH
HONG KONG, Sept. 25—
(CP.) — Fourteen passengers
and five crewmen were killed
today when a big R.A.F. plane
crashed shortly after leaving
the Kai Tak airport for Singa­pore.
Most of the passengers
were military personnel.
The R.A.F. said the cause of
the accident was unknown. A
court of inquiry was set up.
Servicemen
On Aquitania
HALIFAX. Sept. 25.—(CO—General
Albert William Thomas Orsborn ol
the Salvation Army, Sir William
Clark, former British high com­missioner
to Canada, and Sir
Herbert Ea.son, president of thi?
B'rltish General Medical Council,
were among the 2,654 passengers
who disembarked last night from
the Aquitania.
The 44,786-ton liner docked this
afternoon, 27 hours behind schedule
after being detained at the harbor
entrance by fog. Soon after the
ship berthed fog closed in again.
Trains carried westward 1,250
members of the Canadian army, 645
dependents of Canadian .service­men,
including many babes-in-nrms,
and a large part of the 516 civilian
passengers who arrived on the
line-
Helicopters Rescue 18 Survivors of Wilderness Airliner Crash
T.L.C. Backs Demand
Of Striking Farmers
Barricades
Are^ Smashed
Squatters Take Up House-i*? i o
keeping in Empty ' Funcral Serviccs
Barracks
An alrview of the scene in a clearing about a quarter mile from
the area of the crash of a Belgian alrhner, near Gander, Nfld., is
shown, top, as rescue workers started transferring survivors from a
first-aid tent to a helicopter which flew them six miles to a waiting
seaplane and subsequent transfer to the hospital at Gander. Rudolph
ReviU 30-yeiir-old composer from New Ytjrjt city, is lifted out..Ql, a
PBY to a waiting ambulance at tlie Qtinder: alti'ljaSe in j o y e r photo.
Willing hands reach up for- h im as he turns in litter to face the
camera. He was one of 18 who survived the crash.
Germany Acid Test
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FOR STALIN'S PREDICTION OF
CO-OPERATION WITH WEST
WASHINGTON, Sept. Z5.—m
—Germany appears today to
pose the acid test for Prime
l»linistcr Stalin's prediction of
co-operation between the west-cm
powers and Russia.
Diplomatic authorities say
that insofar as Generalissimo
Stalin's latest statement fore­shadows
a deternjined Soviet
effort to get along with the
western powers, the key issue
this fall is certain to be the fu­ture
of Germany.
With many other problems now
under attack at the Paris peace
conference, the foreign ministers
of Britain, the United States, Rus­sia
and France tentatively expect
to get to the German issue in a
new four power meeting soon after-the
Paris sessions wind up,
TWO WAYS OPEN
Even before that there are at
least two ways, according to Ameri­can
authorities in which the Rus­sians
might find an opportunity
to go along toward achieving what
Gen. Stalin calls "the demilitariza­tion
and democratization of Ger­many."
One of these is the American plan
—thus far accepted only by Britain
—for handling Germany as an eco­nomic
unit.
The other bears directly on the
demilitarization question and arises
from the fact that American offi­cials
have numerous reports that
the Russians are operating a va­riety
of armament factories In their
zone of Germany.
Some officials suggested that If
the Russians really want an early
solution of the German problem
they could begin at once by join­ing
in the Anglo-American economic
agreement and also start eliminat­ing
war industries in eastern Ger­many.
G.B. PRESS REACTION
LONDON, Sept. 25.—((P)—The first
editions of London's morning news­papers
played on their front pages
today the world's reaction to Prime
Minister Stalin's statement tSiat he
saw no real danger of war, and
filled their editorial columns with
expressions of welcome for the
Russian leader's words.
Lord Beaverbrook's Dally Express
carried the banner headline: "Mos­cow
rejoices over Stalin's 'No war'."
Tlie Liberal News Chronicle head­lined
a roundup of opinion: "World
welcomes Stalin's 'T do not believe
in new war' declaration." The news­paper's
diplomatic correspondent,
Robert Waithman, wrote that in­formed
persons in London believe
the statement "could be the first
indication of an important change
In the direction and technique of
Soviet policy."
The Labor Daily Herald more
cautiously b a n ne r e d: "Capitals
awaiting next Stalin move."
In an editorial the Conservative
Daily Mail .^ald the statement was
"surprising liecause it constitutes
the first conciliatory approach to
the west by any Russian statesman
for mttny months."
The Moscow radio commentator
analyzer said that Prime Minister
Stalin's .-[tatement on foreign policy
dealt with the "fundamental prob­lems
facing mankind today, above
all that of the danger of a new
war."
The commentator said there were
I "few countries where so much clam-
I or was being raised" on the sub­ject
of a new war as the United
GERMANY
(Continued on Page Two.)
WINDSOR, Ont., Sept. 25.—
(CP.)—The Trades and Labor
Congress today went on record
supporting the demand of strik­ing
Alberta farmers for appoint-mcnl
of a government commit­tee
to investigate parity prices.
Delegates to the T.L.C. con­vention
gave support to a reso­lution
favoring the establish­ment
of closs co-opcr.-ition be­tween
the T.L.C. and farm
groups. The resolution sug­gested
periodic meetings of farm
and labor representatives to
"discuss mutual problems and
develop co-operation and joint
action on all issues which alTect
the workers, the farmers and
the country as a whole."
NOT ALL PROSPEROUS
H. R. Harvey, Regina, supporting
the resolution, .said it was a mis­conception
to think the majority
of western farmers were prosperous.
The farmers' objective was the same
as that of labor—Improtement of
their standard of living.
Carl E. Berg. Edmonton, said the
western strike was one of a minor­ity
group and was not supported by
the major groups. "The matter
should bf settled among the farm­ers
themselves." he said. "We
should bo careful about supporting
minority groups."
Mr. Berg said his was not oppo.sed
to Investigation of uarity prices but
he was opposed to giving '•generHl
support to the strike.
"I have difficulty In justifying the
position where I pay $2.2,') for a
chicken that I used to get for 65
cents," he said. "I don't want to
endorse thp dumoing of inllk v/hea
it Is needed by children In the cities
and In Europe."
NO REQUEST FOR .Sl-'PPORT
Mr. Berg said there hud been no
request from the western farmers
for support from the Congress.
Other speakers took the position the
Congress should not wiilt (or such a
request. Farmers and labor had
much in common and farmers had
•not received the full benefit ol high­er
nrlces for farm products.
The convention pa.s.scd a resolu­tion
asking for the establishment of
a parliamentary committee to draft
amendments to the Canada Ship­ping
Act. The resolution .said the
act was obsolete and had been used
by shlDowners to abrogate the right
to strike and constituted 'u throat
to the trade union movement and.
the Canadian people as a whole."
Anotner resolution urged removal
of statutory bans on the afliUatlon
of civil sorvant.s' organlzatioii.s with
trade union groups and on collec­tive
barmuning by civil .scrvunls.
FULL SUPPOUT FOR I.T.I'.
The convention went on record
giving "full sup))ort" to the Inter­national
Typi^graphlcul Union (A,
P.L.) in it,s dispute with .Soulhiim
and Sifton newsnaocns in Vancou­ver,
Edmonton, "Winnipeg, Hr.rnil-ton
and Ollr.wa.
The re.solulion directed Congress
officers to "provide a special coni-mittce
for the ])urpo.se of carryin„'
on an Inces.sunt and unrcmllting
campaign against the establishment
of the S<.)Uth:iiii-domlnatecl Cana­dian
National Printing Trade O'nion
organization In Canada." (The
C.N.P.T.U. organized Irxials In a
number of Southam papers follow­ing
the strike of I.T.U. members.)
Representatives of the union ask­ing
support for the resolution said
they were not seeking financial aid
from the Congress. The I.T.U. had
undertaken to raise a S500.000 de­fence
fund and strike Ijencflts
would be Increa.sed from 40 to 60
per cent of regular wages.
The C.N.P.T.U. was attacked as
not being a legitimate labor organi­zation.
Several delegates said ex­penditures
made by the national
union were considerably in exce.ss o(
the revenue it obtained from iLs
members, indicating ^company sup­port.
The papers had rcluscd to
carry a union label bctoro the .strike
but now carried the label ot "a
phoney union."
Two Killed As
Truck Overturns
RED DEER, Alta., Sept. 'JS.—'(I" —
One man was killed nistanlly and
another died of burns sufTcred when
an oil truck travelllrig from Cal­gary
to Edmonton overturned and
burst into tlnme.s at Blindman
Bridge. 10 miles north of Red Deer,
early today.
Dead;
Allan Ross, 23, Elnorn, .50 miles
south of Red Deer.
George Luderoute, 20, St. Albert.
The badly burned body of Ross
was identified by relatives who
came from Einora. Lade route, who
wa.s taken to Lacombe linspltal in a
.serious condition, died shortly after
arrival.
It is believed that, papers carried
by Laderoute proved his Identity.
Details of the accident have not
been made known.
Laderoute Is believed lO have been
retiirninfj; to his home at St. Albert
rfhd hitchhiked a ride with Ro.ss.
The truck, owned by Matt Hanna
of Trochu, was destroyed In the lire
and a portion of the bridge where
the accident occurred wa.s damaged
by names from the burning oil.
Polk'f; believe the driver nuist
have lost control of the truck on
a steep approach to the bridge.
Prairie Wheat Moves East 'h -h + + 4- -h 'h •^
Heavy Laden Freight Trains Stop For No One
Truman Jumps Into
Election Battle
W.'\.SIILVGTON, Sept. 2.')—(.TV
—President Truman said Tues­day
the United States is "In
just as great an cmcrgcnc.v" as
in the days of Japan's Pearl
Harbor attack, and called for
the eJertiojj of a congress In
sympathy with the 1944 Ucmo-t-
ratic platform.
Jumjiing Into the middle iif
the congressional campaign, the
president blamed Republican
"obstructionist tactics" for some
of the present domestic diffi­culties.
OTTAWA. Sept. 2,T.—'C.P.I —
While worried authorities pon­dered
how to get them out. 20
families of (he militant Veter­ans'
Housing League settled to­day
into a housekeeping routine
fnllooing the strategic .seizure
la.st night of a naval building
at H.M.t.S. Carltton and a for­mer
('.W.A.C. barrack.s at Lans-downc
Park.
Twice during the hcclic, two-hour
opera I ion. polire apparent­ly
inteiuied to ,»rrest the leagues
diminutive leader, P. E. Han-ratty,
former R.C.A.F. flying of­ficer,
bia each time the vet­erans
ana a crowd of sympathiz­ers
set up such a howl of pro­test
that he was permitted to
proceed with the occupation.
WELL-PLANNED OPERATION
The League, whi'.:h In the last
three weeks has seized empty bar­racks
for 28 other families and now
has installed more than 200 per-
.sons in new quarters, planned the
night'.s operations well.
Moving out of wliat they termed
"hnvpls." the squatters tused force
where necessary, once to smash
down the entrancfe gate at H.M.C.S.
Carlcton and later to gain entry
into the buildings. Hoix^lessly out­numbered,
police offered only what
amounted to a token resistance.
Led by Hanratty, who stood on
the ruimlng board of the leading
automobile, a heavily-laden truck
convoy arrived In the southwest sec­tion
of the city where the naval re-
.serve station is located. A brief
but dramatic scullle ensued as the
duty officer, Lieut. P. G. Chance,
refu.sed them entrance at the out«r
barrier.
"Von can run over me if you want
to. but you can't come in here," he
shouted.
BRIiSHED ASIDE
However, the otlicor, a small com­plement
ot ratings, and two auto­mobiles
were brushed aside in the
brief fracas, and the convoy rolled
in. The squatt.ers ranged from tot,s
to grey-haired women, but mainly
were veterans.
The squatters quickly moved their
j furniture into a two-storey naval
builnlng housing $,"ii)0,000 worth of
naval equipment on half of tlie
upper floor. The lower floor, lor-tnerfy
W.R.C.N.S. quarters, was va­cant.
Tills oi'cupation complete with
.(hp in.slailntion of 11 families, the
veterans made their second sally—
to Lansduwne Park—with the tar­get
a one-storey former C.W.A.C.
barrack hut.
Although four squad cars filled
with city police attempted to stop
the occupation, tlie veterans pried
j open doors and windows and
clamborcd in. In short order, nine
families were hottscd.
A force of R.C.M.P. remained In
the naval building to protect the
valuable equipment^-.somo of it
secret radar and asdic apparatus.
Regarding possible eviction. Coin-mi.'--
Kion(M- S. T. Wood .said the R.C.
M.P. would take no action until re­quested
by the defence department.
Deputy Defence Minister Alexan­der
Ro.ss' reply to queries was: "No
comment."
The :al<,>st. move by the V.H.L.'.s
(lorv leader came after a threat to
.seize the R.C.A.F.'s i^rincess Alice
Ijnrr.'ick.s. Thi; lajnlllc.s and trucks
a.ssembled in Victoria Park opposite
the fiincess Alice barracks.
UIVEKSIONAHV Ri;.SE
Whether tliis was a ru.sc to divert
authorities could not be learned im-nifdintely,
bill, earlier Air Minister
Ollisdii announced .my .itteinpt to
occupy tile Princess .Mice buildings
would be "resisted by KUards rt;-
spoiLsible for the safeiy of valuable
service records, personnel and stall
occuiiying the building."
From ilie a.sscmbly point, the
truck convoy formed and moved
Ihroiigli (iowntown Ottawa streets
by a devious route at the height of
rusli-hour traffic, then suddenly
j iiicked up speed and made (or the
' naval station.
For Gas Victims
DRCMHEIiLER, Alta., Sept. 25.—
(If—Funeral services for John Dickey
of Red Valley, one of three victims
of gas poisoning at Macmine. four
miles west of here Sunday will be
arranged on arrival ot his brother
from Cleveland. Ohio, today.
Services for John Graham. Nac-mlne,
will be held today in Drum-heller
United church.
.Service for Jean Baptiste Vaaft.
Newcastle, third victim of the ac­cident
which occurred while the
men wore digging a cesspool, was
held yesterday.
BARRICADES
(ContmuecJ on Page Cwo.)
Civil War On
Small Scale
—Spreads In Greece
LONDON, Sept. 25.—(A.P.) —
A foreign office spokesman de­clared
today the heavy fight­ing
In northern Greece now
amounted to a "small scale civil
war" .and said evidence present­ed
British representatives by the
Greek government indicated the
dissident forces were being
armed from Yugoslavia and
Albania.
British troops could be called
upon to act only "In a last re­sort,"
the spokesman said, and
would not be uscu unless the
Greek government spccitically
requested such aid.
ARIViEO FROM. OUTSIDE
The Greek government presented
evidence to tnc Britisii tfiat the
forces now being opposed by Greek
troops were being armed "froin the
outside," the spokesman said. Press­ed
to identify- the comttries in­volved,
the official said they were
"Yugoslavia and Albania," lie add­ed,
however, that no units of foreign
troops were involved, so far as he
knew.
"We have no reason to doubl tho
Greek governments evidence," he
said. -
The spokesman said he "did not
know ' whether the present fighting
in northern Greece was in any way
connected with the pendhig return
of King George II to his throne.
The Greek monarch was expected
to leave London today.
A Greek . government spokesman
here predicted "mllllnry operaliona
on a fairly big scale" in nu attempt
to suppress Uio revolt, which ho
attributed to "militant Communism
encouraged from the other side of
Uie border."
DIFFICULT SITUATION
"The Greek government is up
against a difficult siluntiou and all
we can do is to try to re-cstabllsh
order," he said. "We must e.\pcct
this kind of tiling for some time
to come."
Tho Greek official said that since
the E.L.A.S., the military arm of
the left wing E.A.M. iNational Lib-oratiou
Front) coalition was broken
up, some of Its remnunUi had taken
refuge In Albanian and Yugoslav
, territory and formed raiding bands
; which he said attjicked gendarmtrie
posts. The strength ot these bands,
he said. Is from '300 to 400 men
each. Combined miUlary operations
to round up tlie bands were under
way.
Lti-TISTS REPULSED
ATHENS, Sept. 25. — W — Dis-patchcs
from Macedonia reiioried
today that strong band of Leftists
had attacked the village of Pen-dttlophos
but had been repulsed by
gendarmes after a battle in which
23 of the atuickers were slain.
The press ministry meanwhile
confirmed tliat the town of Deskate,
i which was captured three days ago
j by a band of 2,000 Leftists, was now
back i n the hands of government
forces. The minlstrv said the Left­ists
lost 80 killed. 1'78 captured and
many wounded In fighting for the
town.
NEW CANADIAN WHEAT,
MORE BREAD KOR G.B.
LONDON. Sept. 25~fC.P. Cable)
—Plr.st shipmenLs of 1940 Canadian
Wheat are expected in the Unili-d
Kingdom within ten days and there
is rising speculation that bread ra­tioning,
imposed in July, will be
ended in a few weeks. JBakcr.s arc
considering a voluntary flour ra­tioning
scheme at the invitation of
the food ministry.
WINNIPEG, Sept. 25,—'(P;— They
may lack the romance of the silk
specials and the hauteur of the
crack trans-continental fiyers but
in the nation's economy the harvest
trains now rolling east through
Winnipeg will take to a siding for
no one.
Night and day, almost every hour
of the 24, a locomotive pulling 6,5
or 70 cars laden with the wealth of
Canada's prairies grounds to a stop
in .one of Winnipeg district yards
of the country's* 'tw.3 great railway
systems. The annual grain move­ment
to the iakchead Is on.
The magnitude of thp movement
and the wealth it brings directly or
Indirectly to Canadians Is In direct
ratio to the size of the crop. This
year's estimated wheat yield of
440,000,000 bushels and coar.sp grain
harvest of 567,000.000 bu.'hels isn't
the greatest ever. But it rank.s well
up.
RUSH TO L.4KEHEAD
All the grain doesn't move east,
of course. A good part of It—the
dividing line Is in western Saskat­chewan
— normally Is exported
through Pacific coast porta. A com­paratively
small p a n goes through
the Hudson Bay port of Churchill,
Man. But .the major rush is to the
lakehead—the great terminal eleva­tors
at Port William and Port Ar­thur.
At the peak of the 1946 rush—and
that'.s just about now—the Cana­dian
Pacific Railway expect.s to be
handling 16 trains daily easbound
and the same number trundling
empties back west for refills. The
65-70 cars to a train stretch half a
mile. Some days the total may
reach 4.500 cars, with perhaps 3,-
000,000 bushels of grain.
The Canadian National's expecta­tions
are about tho same although,
feeding more northerly—and there­fore
later threshing—areas as they
do, tJie full inovemeM is not yet
under way.
Neither railway expects any major
shortage of rolling stc'ck to develop
although there probably will be
local Instances.
SOME HEADACHES
Already the headaches arc devel­oping.
With more than 5,000 cars
of grain In the lakshead terminals
of the CP. and C.N. earlier this
week, both railway and elevator
officials found themselves hard
pressed to unload them and provide
room for the continuing influx.
Some of the elevators were beset by
lack of labor.
But by the time siuiw files and
Great Lakes navigation clo.ses,
Canadas' lakehead grain "cup­boards"—
bare thl.s year because ot
last year's low crop and heavy ex­ports—
will be overflowing again.
FAIL TO BREAK RECt)RD
TANGMERE, Sussex, Eii«.,
Sept. 25. — (ReutersI — Ihree
R.A.E. test pilots (ailed yester­day
*.o break their own world
airspeed record, falling two miles
an hour short of the mark over
the official course here. The
official record, set by Group
Capt. E. M. Donaldson last
month, is 616 miles per hour.
P.F.R.A. DESIGN ENGINEER
REGINA. Sept. 25.— W—Appoint­ment
Qf Gordon Parkinson, form­erly
of Saskatoon, as design engi­neer
for the Prairie Farm Rehabili­tation
Act administration, was an­nounced
today by P.F.R.A. direc­tor
George Spence. Mr. Parkin.son
was on the staff of the University
ot Saskatchewan civil engineering
department.
The new headquarter.'^ desi'^n
branch of P,F,R.A. will centralize
this type of work here, formerly
done in Calgary and Winnipeg.
NEWS BULLETINS
AWAIT (iOVT. STATEMENT ON FARM STRIKE
O'l'TAWA, Sept. '.25.—(CP.)—A government statement on the
delivery strike of Saskatchewan and .Vlbcrta farmers will be made
by .Agriculture Minister Gardiner following a cabinet meeting late
today, it was learned.
I HEATH PLEADS "PARTIAL INSANITY"
! LONDON, Sept. 25.—(CP.)—Neville George Clevcly Heath pleaded
! "partial insanity" today in his trial for the murder of movie extra
Margery Gardner, whose nude, mutilated body was found June 21
! in his London hotel room. Defence counsel J. A. Casswell said
psychiatric evidence would show Heath was afflicted by "general
delinquency" and by ".s<)mcthii«g which can only be culled sadism."
TANKER ARRIVES WITH FIVE DEAD AFTER BL.VST
SOUTHPOK'l", N.C, Sept. 25.—(A.P.)—The tanker Bennington
with five dead, one missing and one seriously burned in a mysterious
niglil explosion and fire made its way into port here today.
OPPOSITION PLARES OVER C.C.L. RESOLUTION
TORONTO, Sept. 25.—(CP.)—Opposition flared today as the
Canadian Congress of Labor debated 4 resolution to rcalfimi its
political action program. Late In the afternoon the congress ad­journed
until tomorrow without voting on the question.
MODERATE EARTHSIIOCK KELT IN WEST INDIES
t'lUDAD, Trujillo, Dominican Republic, Sent. 25.—(A.P,)—.Moder­ate
carthshock was felt by many persons here about 5 a.m. today,
I No damage wa.s reported,
^ CP.R. URGES WAGE BOOST DEMANDS BE DEFERRED
OTT..\\VA, Sept. 25.—(CP.)—The Canadian Pacific Railway
(,'ouipany in a brief presented before the National War Labor board
today urged that wage increases being demanded by certain of its
labor organizations be deferrSd until some effective steps are taken
to a.ssure the company "llie revenue It so urgently requires,"
DODGERS DROP BACK, LOSE TO PHILLIES 11-9
BROOKLYN. Sept. 25.—(A.P.)—Brooklyn Dodgers moved back
one and one-half games behind the Icague-luadUiK St. Louis
Cardinals today by losing to Philadclphl* H-9,

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Farmers Seek
More Support
Take V^te Settle >rp-".!!.'T,?!., SLt^Ir* Pittsburgh Strike
PITTSBTJRGH, Sept. 2 5 . — A
nine-man strike committee an­nounced
In court today its recom­mendation
that 3,500 striking utility
v/orkers end a two-day-old power
v/alkout which had benumbed in­dustry
and business life in this steel
city.
The committee men said through
roimsel that the union membership
would vote tonight on a new com­pany
proposal to settle the dispute.
Details of the company's offer were
unannounced. The committee said
It would urge that the members ac­cept
the offer, NolsTeef
Price Boost
—Says Anderson
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25— {. •b -i- -h
FOR STALIN'S PREDICTION OF
CO-OPERATION WITH WEST
WASHINGTON, Sept. Z5.—m
—Germany appears today to
pose the acid test for Prime
l»linistcr Stalin's prediction of
co-operation between the west-cm
powers and Russia.
Diplomatic authorities say
that insofar as Generalissimo
Stalin's latest statement fore­shadows
a deternjined Soviet
effort to get along with the
western powers, the key issue
this fall is certain to be the fu­ture
of Germany.
With many other problems now
under attack at the Paris peace
conference, the foreign ministers
of Britain, the United States, Rus­sia
and France tentatively expect
to get to the German issue in a
new four power meeting soon after-the
Paris sessions wind up,
TWO WAYS OPEN
Even before that there are at
least two ways, according to Ameri­can
authorities in which the Rus­sians
might find an opportunity
to go along toward achieving what
Gen. Stalin calls "the demilitariza­tion
and democratization of Ger­many."
One of these is the American plan
—thus far accepted only by Britain
—for handling Germany as an eco­nomic
unit.
The other bears directly on the
demilitarization question and arises
from the fact that American offi­cials
have numerous reports that
the Russians are operating a va­riety
of armament factories In their
zone of Germany.
Some officials suggested that If
the Russians really want an early
solution of the German problem
they could begin at once by join­ing
in the Anglo-American economic
agreement and also start eliminat­ing
war industries in eastern Ger­many.
G.B. PRESS REACTION
LONDON, Sept. 25.—((P)—The first
editions of London's morning news­papers
played on their front pages
today the world's reaction to Prime
Minister Stalin's statement tSiat he
saw no real danger of war, and
filled their editorial columns with
expressions of welcome for the
Russian leader's words.
Lord Beaverbrook's Dally Express
carried the banner headline: "Mos­cow
rejoices over Stalin's 'No war'."
Tlie Liberal News Chronicle head­lined
a roundup of opinion: "World
welcomes Stalin's 'T do not believe
in new war' declaration." The news­paper's
diplomatic correspondent,
Robert Waithman, wrote that in­formed
persons in London believe
the statement "could be the first
indication of an important change
In the direction and technique of
Soviet policy."
The Labor Daily Herald more
cautiously b a n ne r e d: "Capitals
awaiting next Stalin move."
In an editorial the Conservative
Daily Mail .^ald the statement was
"surprising liecause it constitutes
the first conciliatory approach to
the west by any Russian statesman
for mttny months."
The Moscow radio commentator
analyzer said that Prime Minister
Stalin's .-[tatement on foreign policy
dealt with the "fundamental prob­lems
facing mankind today, above
all that of the danger of a new
war."
The commentator said there were
I "few countries where so much clam-
I or was being raised" on the sub­ject
of a new war as the United
GERMANY
(Continued on Page Two.)
WINDSOR, Ont., Sept. 25.—
(CP.)—The Trades and Labor
Congress today went on record
supporting the demand of strik­ing
Alberta farmers for appoint-mcnl
of a government commit­tee
to investigate parity prices.
Delegates to the T.L.C. con­vention
gave support to a reso­lution
favoring the establish­ment
of closs co-opcr.-ition be­tween
the T.L.C. and farm
groups. The resolution sug­gested
periodic meetings of farm
and labor representatives to
"discuss mutual problems and
develop co-operation and joint
action on all issues which alTect
the workers, the farmers and
the country as a whole."
NOT ALL PROSPEROUS
H. R. Harvey, Regina, supporting
the resolution, .said it was a mis­conception
to think the majority
of western farmers were prosperous.
The farmers' objective was the same
as that of labor—Improtement of
their standard of living.
Carl E. Berg. Edmonton, said the
western strike was one of a minor­ity
group and was not supported by
the major groups. "The matter
should bf settled among the farm­ers
themselves." he said. "We
should bo careful about supporting
minority groups."
Mr. Berg said his was not oppo.sed
to Investigation of uarity prices but
he was opposed to giving '•generHl
support to the strike.
"I have difficulty In justifying the
position where I pay $2.2,') for a
chicken that I used to get for 65
cents," he said. "I don't want to
endorse thp dumoing of inllk v/hea
it Is needed by children In the cities
and In Europe."
NO REQUEST FOR .Sl-'PPORT
Mr. Berg said there hud been no
request from the western farmers
for support from the Congress.
Other speakers took the position the
Congress should not wiilt (or such a
request. Farmers and labor had
much in common and farmers had
•not received the full benefit ol high­er
nrlces for farm products.
The convention pa.s.scd a resolu­tion
asking for the establishment of
a parliamentary committee to draft
amendments to the Canada Ship­ping
Act. The resolution .said the
act was obsolete and had been used
by shlDowners to abrogate the right
to strike and constituted 'u throat
to the trade union movement and.
the Canadian people as a whole."
Anotner resolution urged removal
of statutory bans on the afliUatlon
of civil sorvant.s' organlzatioii.s with
trade union groups and on collec­tive
barmuning by civil .scrvunls.
FULL SUPPOUT FOR I.T.I'.
The convention went on record
giving "full sup))ort" to the Inter­national
Typi^graphlcul Union (A,
P.L.) in it,s dispute with .Soulhiim
and Sifton newsnaocns in Vancou­ver,
Edmonton, "Winnipeg, Hr.rnil-ton
and Ollr.wa.
The re.solulion directed Congress
officers to "provide a special coni-mittce
for the ])urpo.se of carryin„'
on an Inces.sunt and unrcmllting
campaign against the establishment
of the Sst. move by the V.H.L.'.s
(lorv leader came after a threat to
.seize the R.C.A.F.'s i^rincess Alice
Ijnrr.'ick.s. Thi; lajnlllc.s and trucks
a.ssembled in Victoria Park opposite
the fiincess Alice barracks.
UIVEKSIONAHV Ri;.SE
Whether tliis was a ru.sc to divert
authorities could not be learned im-nifdintely,
bill, earlier Air Minister
Ollisdii announced .my .itteinpt to
occupy tile Princess .Mice buildings
would be "resisted by KUards rt;-
spoiLsible for the safeiy of valuable
service records, personnel and stall
occuiiying the building."
From ilie a.sscmbly point, the
truck convoy formed and moved
Ihroiigli (iowntown Ottawa streets
by a devious route at the height of
rusli-hour traffic, then suddenly
j iiicked up speed and made (or the
' naval station.
For Gas Victims
DRCMHEIiLER, Alta., Sept. 25.—
(If—Funeral services for John Dickey
of Red Valley, one of three victims
of gas poisoning at Macmine. four
miles west of here Sunday will be
arranged on arrival ot his brother
from Cleveland. Ohio, today.
Services for John Graham. Nac-mlne,
will be held today in Drum-heller
United church.
.Service for Jean Baptiste Vaaft.
Newcastle, third victim of the ac­cident
which occurred while the
men wore digging a cesspool, was
held yesterday.
BARRICADES
(ContmuecJ on Page Cwo.)
Civil War On
Small Scale
—Spreads In Greece
LONDON, Sept. 25.—(A.P.) —
A foreign office spokesman de­clared
today the heavy fight­ing
In northern Greece now
amounted to a "small scale civil
war" .and said evidence present­ed
British representatives by the
Greek government indicated the
dissident forces were being
armed from Yugoslavia and
Albania.
British troops could be called
upon to act only "In a last re­sort,"
the spokesman said, and
would not be uscu unless the
Greek government spccitically
requested such aid.
ARIViEO FROM. OUTSIDE
The Greek government presented
evidence to tnc Britisii tfiat the
forces now being opposed by Greek
troops were being armed "froin the
outside," the spokesman said. Press­ed
to identify- the comttries in­volved,
the official said they were
"Yugoslavia and Albania," lie add­ed,
however, that no units of foreign
troops were involved, so far as he
knew.
"We have no reason to doubl tho
Greek governments evidence," he
said. -
The spokesman said he "did not
know ' whether the present fighting
in northern Greece was in any way
connected with the pendhig return
of King George II to his throne.
The Greek monarch was expected
to leave London today.
A Greek . government spokesman
here predicted "mllllnry operaliona
on a fairly big scale" in nu attempt
to suppress Uio revolt, which ho
attributed to "militant Communism
encouraged from the other side of
Uie border."
DIFFICULT SITUATION
"The Greek government is up
against a difficult siluntiou and all
we can do is to try to re-cstabllsh
order," he said. "We must e.\pcct
this kind of tiling for some time
to come."
Tho Greek official said that since
the E.L.A.S., the military arm of
the left wing E.A.M. iNational Lib-oratiou
Front) coalition was broken
up, some of Its remnunUi had taken
refuge In Albanian and Yugoslav
, territory and formed raiding bands
; which he said attjicked gendarmtrie
posts. The strength ot these bands,
he said. Is from '300 to 400 men
each. Combined miUlary operations
to round up tlie bands were under
way.
Lti-TISTS REPULSED
ATHENS, Sept. 25. — W — Dis-patchcs
from Macedonia reiioried
today that strong band of Leftists
had attacked the village of Pen-dttlophos
but had been repulsed by
gendarmes after a battle in which
23 of the atuickers were slain.
The press ministry meanwhile
confirmed tliat the town of Deskate,
i which was captured three days ago
j by a band of 2,000 Leftists, was now
back i n the hands of government
forces. The minlstrv said the Left­ists
lost 80 killed. 1'78 captured and
many wounded In fighting for the
town.
NEW CANADIAN WHEAT,
MORE BREAD KOR G.B.
LONDON. Sept. 25~fC.P. Cable)
—Plr.st shipmenLs of 1940 Canadian
Wheat are expected in the Unili-d
Kingdom within ten days and there
is rising speculation that bread ra­tioning,
imposed in July, will be
ended in a few weeks. JBakcr.s arc
considering a voluntary flour ra­tioning
scheme at the invitation of
the food ministry.
WINNIPEG, Sept. 25,—'(P;— They
may lack the romance of the silk
specials and the hauteur of the
crack trans-continental fiyers but
in the nation's economy the harvest
trains now rolling east through
Winnipeg will take to a siding for
no one.
Night and day, almost every hour
of the 24, a locomotive pulling 6,5
or 70 cars laden with the wealth of
Canada's prairies grounds to a stop
in .one of Winnipeg district yards
of the country's* 'tw.3 great railway
systems. The annual grain move­ment
to the iakchead Is on.
The magnitude of thp movement
and the wealth it brings directly or
Indirectly to Canadians Is In direct
ratio to the size of the crop. This
year's estimated wheat yield of
440,000,000 bushels and coar.sp grain
harvest of 567,000.000 bu.'hels isn't
the greatest ever. But it rank.s well
up.
RUSH TO L.4KEHEAD
All the grain doesn't move east,
of course. A good part of It—the
dividing line Is in western Saskat­chewan
— normally Is exported
through Pacific coast porta. A com­paratively
small p a n goes through
the Hudson Bay port of Churchill,
Man. But .the major rush is to the
lakehead—the great terminal eleva­tors
at Port William and Port Ar­thur.
At the peak of the 1946 rush—and
that'.s just about now—the Cana­dian
Pacific Railway expect.s to be
handling 16 trains daily easbound
and the same number trundling
empties back west for refills. The
65-70 cars to a train stretch half a
mile. Some days the total may
reach 4.500 cars, with perhaps 3,-
000,000 bushels of grain.
The Canadian National's expecta­tions
are about tho same although,
feeding more northerly—and there­fore
later threshing—areas as they
do, tJie full inovemeM is not yet
under way.
Neither railway expects any major
shortage of rolling stc'ck to develop
although there probably will be
local Instances.
SOME HEADACHES
Already the headaches arc devel­oping.
With more than 5,000 cars
of grain In the lakshead terminals
of the CP. and C.N. earlier this
week, both railway and elevator
officials found themselves hard
pressed to unload them and provide
room for the continuing influx.
Some of the elevators were beset by
lack of labor.
But by the time siuiw files and
Great Lakes navigation clo.ses,
Canadas' lakehead grain "cup­boards"—
bare thl.s year because ot
last year's low crop and heavy ex­ports—
will be overflowing again.
FAIL TO BREAK RECt)RD
TANGMERE, Sussex, Eii«.,
Sept. 25. — (ReutersI — Ihree
R.A.E. test pilots (ailed yester­day
*.o break their own world
airspeed record, falling two miles
an hour short of the mark over
the official course here. The
official record, set by Group
Capt. E. M. Donaldson last
month, is 616 miles per hour.
P.F.R.A. DESIGN ENGINEER
REGINA. Sept. 25.— W—Appoint­ment
Qf Gordon Parkinson, form­erly
of Saskatoon, as design engi­neer
for the Prairie Farm Rehabili­tation
Act administration, was an­nounced
today by P.F.R.A. direc­tor
George Spence. Mr. Parkin.son
was on the staff of the University
ot Saskatchewan civil engineering
department.
The new headquarter.'^ desi'^n
branch of P,F,R.A. will centralize
this type of work here, formerly
done in Calgary and Winnipeg.
NEWS BULLETINS
AWAIT (iOVT. STATEMENT ON FARM STRIKE
O'l'TAWA, Sept. '.25.—(CP.)—A government statement on the
delivery strike of Saskatchewan and .Vlbcrta farmers will be made
by .Agriculture Minister Gardiner following a cabinet meeting late
today, it was learned.
I HEATH PLEADS "PARTIAL INSANITY"
! LONDON, Sept. 25.—(CP.)—Neville George Clevcly Heath pleaded
! "partial insanity" today in his trial for the murder of movie extra
Margery Gardner, whose nude, mutilated body was found June 21
! in his London hotel room. Defence counsel J. A. Casswell said
psychiatric evidence would show Heath was afflicted by "general
delinquency" and by ".s